There was an official news a few days on the publication of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group final report. The report is an interesting read even though I am probably not part of the “typical” target readership. After all, the primary goal of this report is really to convince the reader on the interest and importance of combining the activities of libraries with Linked Data… But the key recommendations of the report are worth repeating:

That library leaders identify sets of data as possible candidates for early exposure as Linked Data and foster a discussion about Open Data and rights;

However, what was not absolutely clear from the original announcement is that the official report also has two “companion” documents, namely a Use Case collection, and a list of references to metadata element sets in RDF, to relevant vocabularies, and to published element sets (e.g., the sets of URI-s, set up by the US Library of Congress, listing all countries in the World). This document, entitled “Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets” is a real, somewhat hidden gem: a possible starting point for practitioners who wants to work with Library Linked Data! Thanks to Antoine Isaac and his friends for collecting these. I wonder how we could get it regularly updated…